Apparel garment



July 7, 1931. E. c. DUFF APPAREL GARMENT Filed May 16, 1928 Patented July 7, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT:y OFFICE gl EWEN o. DUEE, OE NEW YORK, N. Y., AssrGNOR To Kors BROS. INC., OE NEW YORK, N. Y.,

. A CORPORATION OE NEW YORK APPAREL GARMENT Application filed May 1G, 1928. Serial N0. 278,114-.

This invention relates to an apparel garment, and more particularly to a brassire or similar undergarment for womens wear. The garment known as a brassire has come 4into more or less general use and as construced for ordinary use it is customary to provide the garment with shoulder straps for maintaining the upper portion thereof in position on the body. The customary evening dress for women is a low neck or cut gown tirely satisfactory inasmuch as in order to maintain the garment in place the devices employed for this purpose have a tendency to cut or dig into the flesh.

The object of my invention is to Overcome this diiiculty and to provide in a brassire or similar garment a tension device preferably in the upper edge portion thereof which will adequately maintain the upper portion of the garment in place without discomfort for injury in any way to the body of the wear- In carrying out the invention irrespective of the nature of the material of which the garment is made I preferably employ a strip tof elastic and apply the same under tension by a line of stitching or otherwise, to the upper edge portion of the garment and while the elastic is still under tension and the part of the garment to which it is applied is in 'fa straight or fiat position a binder or edging is connected thereto and to the material of the garment by a line of stitching or otherwise, so that when released the elastic contracts causing the part of the garment to which it is applied to be shirred or puckered wearer.

'In the drawings Figure lis a perspective View illustrating the use of the garment in which my present invention is incorporated,

Fig. `2 is a partial elevation showing the same on an enlarged scale,

Fig. 3 isa plan of a strip of elastic material,

Fig. 4 is a plan illustrating the application of the elastic material to the edge portion of the garment,

Fig. 5 is a similar View showing the application of the ribbon or other edging employed, and

Fig. 6 is an enlarged section on line 6 6, Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawings it will be seen that this invention relates particularly to a brassire although as will be understood, it may be applied to other similar garments. n the drawings a brassire is indicaed at l0 and the present invention is illustrated asincorporated in the aXillar upper edge portions of the garment although obviously it may be applied in any desired position, that is, centrally, for example, or at the rear of the axillar portion.

The side member, or members, OI" the brassire, as indicated at 11, may be made of a suitable netted or any other material.'

Inv carrying out the invention I employ a strip' of elastic material. This may bec'f any desired length and as shown particularly in Fig. t the elastic strip 12 is piaced under tension and connected to the upper edge of the portion 11 by a line of stitching indicated at 13. Theelastic strip 12 may be placed to overlap the edge of the garment material, as illustrated, or in any other desired position, it being understood, of course, that the material of the garment at the edge portion thereof is i'n a straight. or flat position when the elastic is connected thereto. The

edge of the garment is then fitted with a riby bon or other edging, indicated at 14, adapted,

while the garment material is still flat and tends over the outer edge of the elastic strip 12 and lies immediately over one side thereof and over the adjacent portion of the overlying edge of the garment. While the parts are thus disposed the edging 14 is connected thereto, that is, to both the elastic strip and the garment material, by ai line of stitch ing 15. This line of stitching 15 may be placed in any position but preferably, as illustrated, this line of stitching is intermediate of the line of stitching by which the elastic strip is connected to the garment material and the edges of the edging. In practice, however, the lines of stitching 13 and 15 may be coincident or arranged in any other relationship. Also, as illustrated, the

elastic strip 12 is preferably connected to the inner side of the garment material although, obviously, it may be connected to the outer side thereof.

It will now be understood that when the parts are thus connected and the tension released the part of the edging enclosing the elastic strip and the adjacent portion of the garment material will be shirred or puckered, as clearly indicated in Fig. 2.

The use of this tension device has demonstrated the fact that it is adequate to maintain the upper portion of the garment in position on the body without the use of shoulder straps, and furthermore that it has no tendency to inconvenience the wearer or to mar the body in any way whatsoever.

Also, as hereinbefore stated, While the tension device comprising the invention is illustrated as applied to the upper aXillar edge portions of the garment it may be applied to any other desired portion of the edge or otherwise without departing from the nature and spirit of the invention.

I claim as my invention;

1. In an apparel garment, an elastic strip connected while under tension by a line of stitching to an edge portion of the garment material and extending appreciably beyond the same, and an edging spanning the elastic strip and the adjacent portion of the garment material and connected by a line 0f stitching to both the elastic strip and the garment material.

2. In an apparel garment, an elastic strip lying adjacent an edge portion of the garment material, and a binder member strad- 'dling the outer edge of the elastic strip,

the said elastic strip being connected in a stretched condition to both the said binder member and the adjacent portion of the garment material by a line of stitching, said line of stitching passing through both sides of the binder.

3. In an apparel garment, an elastic strip lying adjacent an edge portion of the garment material, and a binder member eX- tending over the outer edge of the elastic strip and also over the outer edge of the said garment material to lie adjacent the :outer faces of the overlapping portions of 

